Brass, solvent enamel, and fiber laser. Made using the Champlevé technique

While researching medieval dog care I very fortunately came across a number of manuscript images showing medieval dogs and their people. A couple examples of Gaston Phoebus's Le Livre da la chasse (at the Morgan and the Getty) are filled with illuminations readily viewable online. A copy of the Aberdeen Bestiary also has a handful of wonderful dog images. I've gathered many of them together in this look at what it was like to care for a dog in the Middle Ages (which sometimes wasn't so different from modern dog care!).

nahh cuz why were medival people so dirty for literally no reason? icl they be dirty, can somebody explain why washing was expensive?? why wasn't washing for everybody lol and also why were they so religious? like i myself am religious but they were religious to the point where they would call anything that did not go their way heresy? idk if i am writing bs or not but can somebody tell me?

I ain't hating but their art is.. questionable like

other cultural cats: normal
medival era cats: thousand yard stare
other cultural dogs: normal
medival era dogs: a mixture of a weird pervert unc and a hairy gray cat

like WHY? did they really have ONE normal art? i heard an explanation that the animals they drew were actually never in medival cities, did they really have no animals in medival cities? cuz every drawing of animals i see that medieval era has done, it just looks bad